The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-07-06
HOME AND FARM.

HOME AND FARM.
Try cloth wrung from cold wa
tor put about the neck for sore throat
"A spoonful Of vinegar in boiling
meat makes it tender,
The flesh of rattlesnake when
cooked is as white as milk and very
delicate.
Boil pears from twenty to thirty
enthusiastically for halves and thirty
for whole pears-using six ounces ct
sugar to quart can of fruit.
If swine are to be kept on the
farm the best profits will be found in
the finest breeds that run into matured
meat the first year. Louis Repwb.
licdn.
Even on the best-regulated farms
stock may be injured. Hence old
wells half-hidden bitches and such
like should be covered or filled up.
Window plants that appear yellow
and sickly are generally found to be
suffering from two much water and
too much insect.
To remove stains from cups or
other articles of tableware or marble
lied oil cloths, rub them with SALE
ratus, either with the finger or piece
Of linen.
Meat Cakes: One cup Of chop.
ped cold meat, and tablespoon of cat
sup, one cup rolled crackers, one egg.
Make into cakes; fry in hot lard. -
Baptist Weekly.
Few creatures possess in a greater
degree the virtue of gratitude and
natural kindness than the horse. He is
slow to forgive an injury, but never
forgets continued kindness.
Flour Gems: One egg, one table,
spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
of butter. one and one-half cupfuls of
sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing-powder, two and one-half cupfuls
of -four. Beat well. have your gem
pan hot and buttered. Pour in and
bake quick. -Bostom Budget.
Orange Pie: Rind of one orange
grated, juice of two, six Tablespoons
fuls of sugar, yelks Of four eggs, one
cupful of milk. one tablespoonful OF
flour. little salt; while baking beat
the whites of eggs with two tables
spoonfuls of sugar, put on the pie and
brown. Use this same recipe for
lemon pie, using water with lemon in
| the place of mil k.-Ioledo Blade.
When a varnish, few days sub.
sequent to having been2hid on, loses
its gloss, it is said to have ''clouded."
This accident seldom happens except
in damp weather. A varnish freshly
spread and exposed to damp air be-
comes covered by mist which leaves
its marks upon it. This defect may
be remedied by exposure to the sum-
National N;ew.
When your cane-seat chairs begin
to wear out, mend the break the best
you can by weaving in cords. or il
very bad, replace with piece of can
vas securely tackled on; put on a gen
erous layer of cotton batting or curled
hair, and cover with piece of any
kind of upholstery goods, an EN-
broidered pattern, crazy patchwork
or large "log-cabin" block. Finish
the edge with furniture gimp, ant
fringe if desired. The back may b,
finished with similar panel. In
diamapols Journal.
The farmer who keeps a flock o
twenty-five or thirty hens, with thu
usual accompaniment Of hundred O.
more lively chicks. and allows them t,
share his domain in common with him
self. his other stock and farm utensils
finds perplexity and most abominabl
company at every turn. The hen a
large, in her multiplied form, is wors'
than an army of locusts, and her fol
lowing as offensive as a pestilence. :
N Y Observer.
If fat and previously healthy-ap
pearing fowls are found dead under
the roosts or on the nests the caus
may be ascribed to apoplexy, and tn
| feed should be at once reduced for tn
rest Of the flock, as it is probable tina
all are too fat. If found alive, bu
stupid, with combs and gills turnet
black, bleed at once, either by cuttin,
comb and gill or by opening the veil
under the wing Then shower the hea'
with cold water and put in the hospta
on scant allowance of soft food and
handful of green leaves to pick at
Troy Times.
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